DREW BREES: WE DID IT
In 2010, Drew Brees -- quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, had that kind of moment as he celebrated a Super Bowl win. As he stood with his son lifted up high in the air, he said, "I stood there with my little boy, and I was overwhelmed. I told Baylen how much I loved him
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 19, 2012
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Flotsam and jetsam are commonly used terms. They are used to describe the wreckage and debris that floats in the water after a shipwreck. What isn't so well known is that there is a difference between flotsam and jetsam.
Flotsam is anything that ends up in the water resulting
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Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school These are the things I learned: Share everything.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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My dear friend Maureen Smith Grable conveys this truth very well in her poem “Doing Battle on Our Knees.”
"Many warriors have gone to battle
riding mounted, prancing steeds
But the Christian goes to battle
when he falls upon his knees.
The greatest warfare will take place
when the Christian kneels
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At age 83 on August 4, 1786, John Wesley wrote his pamphlet entitled “Thoughts on Methodism.” This contains one of my favorite quotations from Wesley but one that continues to haunt me as I reflect on the sad state of our United Methodist denomination in America and the spiritual condition of our
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Methodist
Contributed by Dan Thompkins on Jan 11, 2008
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The "South Indian Monkey Trap" was developed by villagers to catch the ever-present and numerous small monkeys in that part of the world. It involves a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut has some rice inside which can be seen through a small hole. The hole is just big enough so
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
Russ Perman tells this story: "Working as a secretary at an international airport, my sister had an office adjacent to the room where security temporarily holds suspects. One day security officers were questioning a man when they were suddenly called away on another emergency. To the horror of my
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Nuhfer on Jul 16, 2008
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Misdirection in a football game is fun. Misdirection from Satan is deadly. He has been doing it for thousands of years, from the time in the Garden of Eden when he got Eve to believe that God was holding out on her and Adam, to Exodus when he got the Israelites focused on hating Moses, to the time
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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TEN COMMANDMENTS: STATUTES OF LIBERTY
In The Gospel and the American Dream, historian Bruce Shelley writes, "In one hand Liberty holds the torch of freedom and in the other the tablet of law. The torch challenges the forces of darkness and tyranny. The tablet of law reminds us that liberty
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 19, 2006
HAND IN HAND, NOT EYE TO EYE
There is a study by James Dobson that reveals that men use about 25,000 words a day, but women use 50,000. Now, ladies when you say, "My husband just won’t listen to me..." You’ve got to realize he doesn’t have the brain with the capacity to hold as much as you can
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